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The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra concert presenting the Original Chad Mitchell Trio in Concert scheduled for Aug. 27 has been canceled indefinitely due to the serious illness of one of the trio. Call 842-2055 for more information.

THIS WEEKEND

BLESS YOU, SISTERS

The Little Sisters of Hoboken come home from a trip to Hollywood and have a tale to tell in the May River Theatre production of “Nunset Boulevard,” tonight through Aug. 21. Performances are at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling the box office at 815-5581 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. An opening reception will begin at 7 p.m. at the theatre for ticket holders. The theatre is in Ulmer Auditorium at the Bluffton city hall, 20 Bridge St.

VARGHESE AT HILTON HEAD COMEDY CLUB

Catch Paul Varghese tonight through Aug. 7 at the Hilton Head Comedy Club. Varghese’s act includes a number of observations about being Indian, providing outsider-looking-in and insider-looking-out commentary, while also exploring an array of topics and issues outside that realm. He was named by the Dallas Observer in 2007 as the “Best Stand-up Comic in Dallas” and recently won the 2009 “Funniest Comic in Dallas” competition. Varghese has performed at the HBO Comedy Festival, the Montreal and Toronto Just For Laughs Festivals, and the TBS Comedy Festival. His TV credits include Telemundo 2’s “Loco Comedy Jam,” NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” Comedy Central’s “Live At Gotham” and he can be seen this Oct. 17 on Showtime’s “Russell Peters Presents.” Admission is $12 per person, 18 years and older, and advance reservations are recommended. The Comedy Club is at 430 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head. Call 681-7757 or go to www.hiltonheadcomedyclub.com

JAZZ CORNER

The Jazz Corner will host “A Salute to Aretha Franklin,” featuring the Sterlin & Shuvette Colvin Band. Sterlin and Shuvette are seasoned entertainers who have been smokin’ hot in the southeast since the early 1990s. They perform a variety of R&B, blues, pop and rock and roll and Shuvette has a voice that will cut to your soul. They have performed and shared the stage with everyone from Earth Wind and Fire to Steve Cropper. This group can take you from a tear-jerking ballad to a “tear the floor up” dance song.

Share the salute at 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday. Doors open at 6 p.m. and intermission is about 9:30 p.m. The jazzy restaurant is in The Village at Wexford, C-1, 1000 William Hilton Parkway. Call 842-8620 or go to www.thejazzcorner.com

WILD WING HOSTS LIVE MUSIC

Socialize to live music around 10 p.m. Fridays at the Wild Wing Café in Bluffton. Enjoy Crashbox tonight followed by Soulfish on Saturday. The café is at 1188 Fording Island Road. Call 837-9453 for more information.

GOOD MEDICINE

J. Howard Duff performs from 8 to 11 p.m. every Friday evening at the Old Town Dispensary on Calhoun Street. Tap your toes to his brand of Lowcountry blues and rock ‘n’ roll.

MEET THE ARTS

Bluffton Relax-and-Create Meetup Group meets at 10:30 a.m. on first Saturdays at Each Other’s Muse Studios, 19 Buckingham Plantation Drive, Bluffton. Join for creative, art-orientated, no-pressure fun. For more information, go to Bluffton Relax-and-Create at www.meetup.com/Bluffton-Relax-and-Create

ONGOING

BASKET-WEAVING HISTORY

An exhibit of “The Beaufort Basket” by sweetgrass basket maker Jery Bennett-Taylor is on display through Aug. 26 in the York W. Bailey Museum at Penn Center National Historic Landmark, St. Helena Island. This will be the first in a series of exhibits celebrating Gullah traditional art in South Carolina. The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Special hours can be arranged by appointment. The museum tour includes an introduction by a docent, a video on the history and a self-guided tour of the historical collections displayed in four small galleries.

Lectures can be scheduled. No photographs are allowed inside the museum — no cameras, videos or cell phones. Admission is $5 per adult and seniors; $3 per child 17 and younger. Groups rates are not offered.

The Penn Center National Historic Landmark is at 16 Penn Center Circle West. To get to the center, drive through Beaufort on U.S. 21 over the bridge and follow the signs to Penn Center Historic District. Call 843-838-2432, go to www.penncenter.com or email info@penncenter.com

ADVANCED PLANNING

JAMBALAYA DEUX IS ON THE MENU

Diane Britton-Dunham and James Denmark will dish up a bit of dis and a lil bit o dat, it’s going to be HAWT, oh yeah! The August gallery show at ARTworks in Beaufort Town Center will feature influences from the Sea Islands Gullah to Louisiana’s Congo Square — as the title implies anything good goes in the pot. The opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 5 and is free to the public. Meet Britton, the glamorously earthy Lowcountry painter, and Denmark, the evocative, world-renown collagist, both with a taste for multi-media spices and based in Beaufort. The gallery is at 2127 Boundary St. The gallery is free to browse Tuesday through Saturday. Call 379-2787 or go to www.ArtWorksInBeaufort.org

FROM PORT ROYAL, WITH MUSICAL LOVE

Street Music on Paris Avenue will open early with a free pre-series bonus concert at 6 p.m. Saturday. Catch the grand finale of the Beaufort’s Best Hidden Talent Competition. Bring chairs and dancing shoes to cheer on the final round of bands as they compete for a $1,000 gig in the Street Music on Paris Avenue series in 2012.

The season begins officially at 6 p.m. Aug. 13 with “Sugar Blue, A True Harp Hero.”

Considered to be one of “the foremost harmonica players of our time,” by Rolling Stone, this Grammy Award-winning harmonica virtuoso is not your typical bluesman. Sugar Blue bends, shakes, spills flurries of notes with simultaneous precision and abandon, combining dazzling technique with smoldering expressiveness and gives off enough energy to light up several city square blocks and he sings, too.

Street Music on Paris Avenue is a free concert series gift from the town of Port Royal and is produced by ARTworks, the arts council of Beaufort, Port Royal and the Sea Islands. The 2011 Summer Series celebrates American Roots Music, a broad category of music including bluegrass, country music, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music all native to the United States or developed to such a degree that musicologists consider it distinctly new. These genres are “roots music” because they are the basis of later developments, such as rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and jazz. All the concerts are free at 6 p.m. Bring chairs and dancing shoes. The rain location is The Shed, adjacent to the street venue, in Old Village Port Royal. Call 279-2787 or go to www.ArtWorksInBeaufort.org

HILTON HEAD COMEDY CLUB – ONE NIGHT ONLY

The Hilton Head Comedy Club will host a special “Evening with Elayne Boosler” at 7 and 9 p.m. Aug. 29. The veteran comedian and talk show regular has more than 100 television appearances and five Showtime comedy specials in addition to headlining live performances across the country. She will perform two shows at 7 and 9 p.m. Admission is $20 and reservations are recommended. The Comedy Club is at 430 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head. Call 681-7757 or go to www.hiltonheadcomedyclub.com

ARTWORKS IN BEAUFORT

“Not Just Giving Peace A Chance, But Bringing It Back In Style”: The artwork of stained glass artist Ragtime, a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran, will be on display September through October at ARTworks in Beaufort Town Center. The opening reception is from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 2.

This gallery show and sale is one man’s quest to share a vision of life without war. Ragtime, a stained glass artist living near Berkeley Spring, W.Va., began his Points of Peace in the fall of 2006. As a combat marine who fought in Vietnam, this work is his contribution to the effort to create a more caring world free from war. Each piece is a unique creation intended to remind everyone of the spirit of peace, and is part of a numbered and cataloged series limited to 1,000.

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